Here's the latest: Snow inching its way into Delco

A stadium worker shovels off the yardlines during a timeout in Sunday’s snowy game between the Detroit Lions and Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field. More snow is in the forecast for Tuesday. (Times Staff / ERIC HARTLINE)

If the weather forecast for today is just as accurate as Sunday’s, snowshoes could be in order.

A day after whiffing on a storm that brought white-out conditions to Southeastern Pennsylvania and Lincoln Financial Field, forecasters were calling for another blast of winter to arrive Tuesday morning.

“It looks like at least three to five inches of accumulation tomorrow for Delaware County and the Philadelphia area,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Bunker. “It will probably begin right around sunrise, continue for most of the day and be over by sunset.”

Temperatures were expected to top out at 32 degrees Tuesday and fall to about 20 degrees in the overnight hours.

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A storm forecasted to bring a coating to an inch of snow to the region Sunday afternoon ended up dumping 8.6 inches at Philadelphia International Airport, an amount that eclipsed the total for all of last winter. The snow measured 10.5 inches in parts of western Delaware County and brought traffic to a crawl throughout the region.

“We did see snow coming, but it came down a lot harder and for a little bit longer than we thought it would,” said AccuWeather meteorologist Frank Strait. “It was a relatively narrow area where the snow fell, but inside that band it snowed hard.”

A storm that moved through Kansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee was tracking toward the Interstate 95 corridor Monday afternoon, triggering winter storm warnings for Tuesday in Delaware County and parts of Bucks, Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. Before moving out to sea, the system was expected to deliver snow from the mountains of North Carolina to central New Jersey.

“It looks like it’s going to be a fairly quick-hitting system and the snow should start tapering off by about 3,” Strait said. “We are calling for two to four inches in (the Delco) area, but there’s a chance of five to six. It depends on how hard it snows.”

More snow is possible later this week.

“The next few days look pretty quiet weather-wise, but the next chance of snow could be Friday or Saturday,” Bunker said. “It’s too early to know the extent, but the computer models are setting up for some type of wintry precipitation.”

Strait said cold temperatures are expected for the next week.

“We could see a moderation around the 19th or 20th, but the next seven to 10 days should be cold with one or two chances of snow,” he said.